There we go.

I'm going to call to order this meeting of the City of Sacramento Disability Advisory Commission for Wednesday, November 5th, 2025.

Clerk, can you please call the roll?

Yes.

Commissioners, please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

Yeah.

Commissioner Barnbaum.

Here.

Commissioner Patel.

Here.

Commissioner Wilson is absent.

Commissioner Dyson.

Here.

Commissioner Naper is absent.

Commissioner Gueve is absent.

Commissioner Carr.

Here.

Chair Kramer is absent.

And Vice Chair Ellis.

Present.

Thank you.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

And I'm going to turn it over to Commissioner Barnbaum to lead us in the land acknowledgement.

So please rise if you are able.

Okay.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgements in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous People and Tribal Lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Mewak, Patwin, Winton Peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria.

Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people's history, contributions, and lives.

Thank you, and please remain rised for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

And uh Commissioners, our first item of business is approval of the consent calendar, which is our meeting minutes and the follow-up log.

Do I have a motion?

Vice Chair Ellis, Commissioner Barnbaum wishes to move the consent calendar as presented on the agenda in and the staff report.

Is there a second?

I seconded.

Thank you.

I will also say for the record that there's no public comment for this item.

Thank you, Clerk.

And please call the roll.

Commissioners, please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Aye.

Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes.

Commissioner Patel?

Aye.

Commissioner Wilson is absent.

Commissioner Dyson.

Aye.

Commissioner Napper is absent.

Commissioner Gwebe is absent.

Commissioner Carr.

Aye.

Chair Kramer is absent.

And Vice Chair Ellis.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

Thank you.

Our first item on our discussion calendar is uh the SAC adapt transportation engagement plan phase two.

Uh being presented.

And I apologize in advance if I get your name wrong.

Uh Sarah Clarek.

Clark, hold on.

All right.

Our sustainability engineer.

Uh by all means, please take it away.

Excellent.

Uh, thank you very much, Commissioners.

Good evening.

Um, as uh the vice chair said, my name is Sarah Calark.

I'm a specialist with our city's Office of Climate Action and Sustainability in the Public Works Department.

Tonight's presentation is an overview of our uh transportation infrastructure adaptation plan or SAC Adapt.

Um so we'll be talking about the plan as a whole as well as our phase two engagement and overview of upcoming steps.

So the SAC adapt Plan is an effort to analyze extreme weather risks to our transportation system and identify opportunities to make our system more resilient.

It is a grant funded effort through a Caltrans Adaptation Planning Grant and is something that we as the city are leading in partnership with SAC RT as a partner on this plan.

So as I mentioned, the SAC Adept Plan will help us prepare our transportation system for extreme weather events, namely in Sacramento, extreme heat, extreme storms, in particular wind and rain, as well as regional fire impacts, which primarily impact us with local air quality impacts.

So we are analyzing all of these extreme weather events, identifying and prioritizing actionable recommendations that can then position ourselves for future funding, in particular looking to get more grant funding and be competitive to secure that.

Extreme weather in Sacramento has always been around.

Extreme storms are familiar part of our lives, but they are getting more intense and more frequent as a result of climate change.

And so that's really the key piece that we're looking at.

How are those going to increase?

And we even have recent examples like the summer heat waves that we experienced in 2024, as well as the very intense winter storms in the winter of 2022 to 2023, where we had a series of very extreme atmospheric wind rivers.

So with that, we'll be looking at those impacts across all parts of our transportation system.

So that includes roads, bikeways, sidewalks, as well as public transportation infrastructure with the partnership with RT.

So it's looking at bus and light rail infrastructure.

We are also looking at supportive assets.

So things like pump stations, which help keep our roads clear, was from stormwater, for example, or fueling stations for zero emission buses as another example.

We kicked off this project work in August 2024, and since then we have completed a literature review and existing conditions report, which is on our project website.

We conducted phase one engagement earlier this year.

We completed a vulnerability assessment, which was looking at all our various asset types in our transportation sphere, and then looking at how different extreme weather events can impact each asset in different ways.

We've also completed a draft risk assessment that's our most recent deliverable where we have developed draft adaptation strategies that we are currently vetting internally.

The adaptation strategies that we're vetting internally generally fall into four different categories.

So I'll overview the four categories.

First one being looking at different materials or designs that can improve infrastructure durability when we're facing these extreme weather events, as well as improve the comfort of the person level experience, which is particularly important as we have big climate goals, encouraging people to walk, bike, roll, take transit, and being able to do so year-round, is going to be increasingly important.

So this slide features three photos illustrating some potential design recommendations.

So on the bottom left, there's a photo of a parking lot that has a cool pavement surface level treatment.

So cool pavements are something that we're looking at, potentially piloting as a way of reducing the urban heat island effect.

The bottom middle photo shows construction of a soil vault system, which is a way of increasing soil space for trees to support tree health to increase shading opportunities as well as help with stormwater management.

And then the bottom right photo is from the city of Sacramento from the Dixie Ann Alleyways project.

So previous pavers are another thing that we're thinking about, whether or not there's a cost effective opportunities to use that as a way of mitigating some stormwater management.

Let's see.

The other categories that we are looking at include looking at the need for new or relocated infrastructure.

For example, this can be to increase the redundancy of routes as a pathway toward increased resilience.

Also elevating infrastructure, for example, to increase resilience to floods.

Increased maintenance and operations is something that we're thinking about.

In particular, many of the different designs or materials like previous pavers, cool pavements, many of those may have additional maintenance implications.

Many of them may only function as well as the maintenance we're able to perform.

So that is part of what we're thinking about as we're doing our internal review of the adaptation strategies.

And then finally, emergency preparedness is something that we are thinking about through this plan, and that is both on the agency side as well as community side.

So those recommendations include community outreach and engagement as well as internal trainings and other ways of enhancing preparedness.

Our upcoming schedule includes.

Currently, we're working on our phase two engagement.

So that includes this presentation tonight.

We have a survey that is available through the end of this week, so it'll close end of day Friday.

With the information from this phase two engagement, as well as engagement with city and RT agency staff, we will be working on finalizing our adaptation strategies, preparing a draft prioritization, and preparing the draft plan, which will we will be bringing for public review in our phase three engagement in early 2026.

And that will include another presentation to this commission in your February meeting.

From there, we'll be moving to bring this to City Council, hopefully in April, so that we can be compliant with our grant deadline at the end of the month in April 2026.

To highlight the community engagement work that we've done in this phase two effort.

So we have a project survey, which is our primary way of collecting public feedback, and this is available online through this QR code that is on the slide.

There's also a link on the project website, which is city of sacramento.gov/slash sacadapt.

It's also translated into five languages and printed, available in a large font, hard copy in all of our city community centers.

We've also been attending a number of different events and conducting presentations during our phase two outreach, and so that is listed out in the staff report.

And we've been sending out updates and opportunities for engagement through our sustainable Sacramento newsletter.

So tonight's item is a review and comment.

And there are a few questions in particular that I'm curious for feedback on, but of course, welcome all feedback that you have.

So first, uh, does the commission have feedback on the phase two engagement approach?

Does the commission have feedback on the example recommendations or you want to give any uh specific feedback on the examples that I shared?

And then in particular, I'm very interested in feedback on what you found is the biggest barrier for mobility is that heat or localized flooding, thinking about how we can prioritize strategies that enhance user comfort of our sidewalks, bikeways, public transit infrastructure prioritization is essential given our limited funding and the need to pursue competitive funding sources and be very strategic.

So, this is a key question of how we can be most impactful in these efforts.

With that, thank you very much.

And this is my contact information if anyone cares to reach out.

Alright, thank you very much for your presentation.

I'll just first clerk.

Is there any public comment for this item?

I do not have any speakers, let's try to say, thank you.

Um, I'll just start with my comments in that this is I think this is really great.

Um I think this builds on a lot of what the city has been working on over the last decade or so.

I remember when I was on the utility rates advisory commission 10 years ago, the the storm, you know, the combined sewer storm drain system has really been overtaxed with the different weather events that we tend to have when it's a really wet year, and so trying to beef up that infrastructure, I know has been a priority for the city to deal with those issues.

But then I think like you're talking about here, how do we deal with you know the wider scope of trying to provide transit and you know all the modes of transportation given all these different weather events, and you know, since it is kind of a soggy day today, you know, when our storm drain systems back up, that creates impediments with the sidewalk infrastructure, you know, given you know all the leaves and hazards and things like that.

But then also um with the heat events, you know, that kind of is the double-edged sort of having being the city of trees, we have our tree canopy in a good chunk of our city.

Um, so when you know those trees lose their leaves as they do, then they provide, you know, we have this problem with the storm drain infrastructure.

But I think expanding the tree canopy into the parts of the city that don't have it is a probably a good idea.

Um, given the heat events and things and trying to provide that shade, um, and then you know, trying to work that in with you know the different um other modes of transportation infrastructure that we're building out, the bikeways and things like that.

So that'd just kind of be my comment, but I think this is a really uh great project and kind of tying together a lot of different things that the city has been working on.

Um, and so I will then um now turn it over to Commissioner Barnbaum for your comments or questions.

Yes, to what you asked of us on the last slide.

Um there was a slide that I think discussed the possible recommendations.

Uh if you could go back to that for a minute, there was something in the language that I specifically wanted to ask regarding redundancy.

Uh, yes, uh this one.

New or relocated infrastructure example to increase redundancy of routes, and I kind of scratched my head at that thinking, okay.

Currently there's a comprehensive operational analysis going on, and agencies are looking at what they're doing internally and what everyone around them is doing, among other things, to reduce redundancy of routes parallel on the same roadway, and maybe thinking a way to reconfigure, redesign service to stay within budget and yet provide the best coverage without as much uh or uh with as little or no redundancy as possible.

And so that kind of gravitated to to my attention.

So maybe if you can elaborate a little bit on that, and then following up on the last slide you asked about heat or floods.

What I've heard came from a family member, more people, uh whether they have disabilities or don't, uh pass through no fault of their own through heat-related illnesses than any other weather-related phenomenon.

And so I thought thinking kind of what Phoenix and Valley Metro has done in the Valley Metro service area.

They have uh provided the city and county um surplus uh buses as cooling centers when a fixed cooling centers uh have run out of space or capacity.

Uh, would that be something you would consider using either surplus um buses, be it public transit or surplus school buses through school districts where the air conditioner is fully functioning, but yet they're not necessarily using that vehicle anymore due to um it's expired its uh lifespan or that other parts and stuff are not available for that vehicle anymore.

So maybe it could be put to other uses like a cooling center when we have extreme heat, and we could look to our neighbors to the valley in the sun say, hey, look what we're doing now.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Um thank you for uh those comments and questions.

Um thank you for highlighting that example.

I think that's something that we will want to look into, and that's certainly something I'll bring up with RT.

Um, it's always we're eager to learn from other agencies and what they're doing well and what's working well.

And the school districts.

Yes, um, so getting to um your questions on the redundancy of route.

So I'll highlight um I was uh to give some more detail here.

So this is particularly looking at um walking, biking, driving infrastructure.

So not thinking about public transit routes.

We're not doing any type of um bus routing analysis uh through this study.

RT has the separate process for establishing the route.

Which I'm on that process.

Yes, excellent.

So then you yeah, you know about that.

So um an example that we're thinking about with route redundancy um specific to bicycles is crossings over rivers in particular.

So there's rivers are huge pinch points, and there's one, of course, notable north-south crossing over the American River, which is on the Jibum Street Bridge where you go through Discovery Park.

When that park floods, um, after dam releases or large storm events, that crossing is inaccessible for bicyclists and pedestrians.

So that is an example of a way where um increasing crossing opportunities would then allow for more route redundancy and resiliency for bicyclists and pedestrians.

Okay, so on that note I'd say maybe look into a new Broadway bridge between uh the two cities, and I think Congress and the local entities are already looking at the new I Street Bridge.

Ice Street Bridge, exactly.

Another good example of increasing route redundancy and safe routes across rivers.

Yeah, thank you.

Absolutely.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Uh Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you.

I wanted to go.

Um I wanted to um, well, follow up with the um Vice Um Chair Alice's comments with regards to trees, and um, well, in working with other local agencies, um, you know, um we for example, um, well, probably almost a year ago, we had in uh an arborist come before us and talk about um a project that I'm sure is still ongoing in terms of um servicing um lower historically lower um income areas, which uh fortunately have less trees than we see in you know, midtown or downtown here.

And um, because you know, um it in terms of the heat, it is a blessing that we live on three rivers and then have so many trees.

And so I wanted to point um that detail out in terms of um and then I um I really appreciated um Commissioner Barnbaum's um suggestions with and with regards to um you know uncommissioned um buses or whatnot, and that almost goes for in both weather situations in terms of coverage for um unhoused or you know um breaks for people that are working out in the um, you know, outside too.

So thank you very much.

And it was a great presentation and it's it's exciting um to hear and learn about it.

Thank you.

Uh thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum.

Uh Commissioner Carr.

Thank you, uh Chair.

Um thank you so much for a great presentation.

I I like your diligence that you have been um trying to reach out to the community for their um for engagement.

But um, I just have one comment that uh you know, one question and one comment, I guess.

So what was the response from the were people engaged in this uh project a lot?

What was their engagement like?

And my comment would be um maybe it'll be a good idea to engage um uh the community coalition groups.

Like they are more focused on on particular subjects, like especially for transportation and on all these projects.

They do have like when they go to meetings, they they have monthly meetings.

For example, North Automas Coalition, um community coalition.

They have a monthly meeting and they discuss all of this stuff.

So that was my suggestion that you know for more community engagement, maybe those groups might be better.

But excellent presentation.

Thank you.

And I like thank you for your diligence as well.

Yeah, thank you very much.

And that's a good note.

We did a lot of targeted emails to different um organizations to try to incorporate their groups.

So that's a good reminder to take a look at our list and make sure we're including all those coalitions.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Carr.

Uh, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yeah, so um a lot of great suggestions and comments from the commissioners uh this evening, and if I heard what staff had mentioned in the presentation, um, want to pick up and piggyback on that, and that is that I would like to um move the item to be continued uh so to give staff approximately 90 days to come back with the um answers or things to our comments to a month certain February 2026 disability advisory commission meeting.

I think what probably would be the best is if um we can get those answers through our commission staff, Jesse, because yeah, that sounds good.

I know Sarah is planning to come back, right?

You mentioned your presentation, so it may be coming back at that February meeting with some of those responses.

Does that work?

And by that point, we will have a full analysis of the phase two engagement results.

Fantastic.

Yeah, I'll accept the friendly amendment to uh to the motion.

Okay.

Just to clarify, there is no motion on the table, right?

Yeah, we don't need a yeah, motion.

This is uh receiving.

You don't need a motion to continue the presentation uh in 90 days.

No, the chair, vice chair, and the staff, we set the agenda for each meeting, so we can just note that accordingly.

Copy that.

Uh Commissioner Dyson.

Okay, my question for you is you maybe survey uh which goes through what Friday.

So, what was your audience and your outreach?

Where did that survey go to?

Yeah, good question.

So, um we are we were primarily targeting City of Sacramento um residents and then anyone who works in the city of Sacramento.

So ultimately we can have a fairly broad geographic reach.

Um we were primarily targeting folks who use um alternative modes of transportation, walking, biking, public transportation, um, which that does put driving as a default, but really trying to make sure that we are looking beyond folks who um are have kind of the comfort of a car.

We did a number of in-person engagement events, including targeted engagement at um busy transit stops.

We did some um engagement on light rail vehicles, um, even to capture folks as they're going through their daily commutes.

We attended events uh throughout the city, so we covered every single council district, um, at in-person uh events so that we could talk with folks, get their feedback and um encourage them to take the survey.

We did targeted emails to a number of different groups, including you know, like different sector-specific groups, so transportation, sustainability groups, as well as different like housing associations, neighborhood associations.

We had an extensive list, it was about a hundred different groups that we're contacting.

Um, and then we also contacted all the council offices to help send out information through their channels.

Okay.

Uh thank you, Commissioner Dyson, and I'll turn over to our staff, Jesse Baffin.

I just wanted to um mention our our chair Kramer couldn't be here tonight, but I know when this topic um came up uh in the around the context of the LA fires, um, just concern about emergency responsiveness and kind of notifying those vulnerable, you know, members of the community.

Does the plan um does it provide any recommendations kind of around that?

I know it's talked about heat, but like like fire events and kind of emergency responses.

Is there like a place for um kind of notifying um the public in those extreme and kind of public address kind of things and and how's the how does that handle that?

Remember that came up on the commission dias during those times.

Yeah.

So that type of strategy, it will uh that would be featured as an action item under uh community engagement around emergency preparedness.

Um we do have uh someone here from FIRE um to speak a little bit about some of the existing um processes because there's there are many great processes in place, and so we this um plan is an opportunity to find ways to expand out, but there is a current um approach to that.

So with that, I will tag you to provide some context about what uh the fire department currently does.

Awesome.

Evening everyone, my name's Pat Costman, I'm the assistant chief with the fire department.

Happy to answer any questions.

Um if you have anything pointed uh specifically towards that topic.

Yeah, I think um if my recollection of about Chair Kramer's, you know, what's the kind of like outreach and support for uh people with disabilities in that time of emergency, you know.

So is it specific to um like the technological uh the callback mechanism that or you know when we okay?

So we we have several layers in place.

Um I guess specifically tonight, the fire department.

I'm I mentioned it to Sarah, I'm gonna give it a plug.

We're doing a uh basically it's it's a high-rise drill.

So any it's a simulated drill in at 450 in Street where we're doing a uh large scale evacuation tonight, and there is um uh several different scenarios going on there where we're we're um um evacuating that building.

Uh just one small instance of what we do, but it happens to be we have 40 different departments from all over Northern California and we're kind of displaying our our actions and and trying to get a really best practices um for these type of situations.

Um that's just one small instance of what we do.

Um we're we do have a callback uh mechanism through the emergency management.

We we're in I think I believe we're in cooperation with SAC County for that piece.

Um as far as the fire department specific and wildfires, um uh mass evacuation is obviously it's it's more of a uh law enforcement mechanism during fires.

So uh the fire department does uh coordinate that with law enforcement.

They're usually get out in front of what we've maintained as a fire line to do evacuations.

So there's outreach on all social media um through the callback system through, I'll call it reverse 911, but it's a different system that we use.

Um those mechanisms are already in place as far as our fire department um and getting physically people that have um disabilities getting out of their homes.

Every one of our units has a mechanism uh to remove a single person from the residence.

It's hard when we get multiple people or and then we rely on probably mass transit to try to remove large sums of people from a neighborhood or things like that.

But that's a good coordination piece that we do with our dispatch and it's in place every day.

Um so those are just some examples, but if there's more specific questions, I'm happy to ask.

What and I will say that we're we're always working on this, but we're always looking for better ways to serve.

So if there's a good avenue for that, we're happy to be great.

Yeah, I think uh at least my recollection with talking with Chair Kramer, you know, the concern is like when those big events, you know, the campfire and then the LA ones, it's usually people with disabilities who are kind of left behind, you know, they don't move as fast.

They don't, you know, and those kinds of issues come up and or they get trapped and you know, so it's good to hear that we have mechanisms you're coordinating with other agencies and departments and law enforcement to really try to put all the resources we have in the city together and you know, probably with the state level as well, I would imagine.

So when the when that time when it is that becomes that big.

So that's that's good to hear.

Uh any other commissioner questions and comment?

Greenball.

Uh Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you.

Um for my uh for our my education, maybe in the rest of us perhaps too, in terms of um, and I am I will imagine or um, are you is there mechanisms or policy protocol in place where you're prioritizing or sending um certain groups maybe in with in conjunction with law enforcement to um I might would imagine probably hospitals.

Yeah, I would say hospitals, nursing homes, any targeted facility that it's on our radar.

Um, you know, we're every day we're increasing our mapping capabilities so those um those facilities are more readily available for us to target in those situations.

Um but we're again we're always looking how how to increase that outreach to get those on our radar, I guess is the best way to put it.

Yeah, and you and that was another one on my list, you know, nursing homes and assisted living or um senior housing.

Um also with regards to our our unhoused um um community members, for example, encampments, you know, just at Cesar Chavez, or um uh shelters as well, um, because of course um there's you know no meet other means of transportation for those those folks.

Um are those on your radar, those types of uh absolutely we work with our fire prevention bureau quite very closely for a lot of the centers and shelters uh that are uh within the city or in our jurisdiction.

We we have areas that are outside the city, so we're always uh working in those areas as well, our contract areas.

Um the the unhoused uh population that's always a consideration uh if they're identified, it's obviously easiest easiest for us to um evacuate them, but we do a lot of sheltering in place in those situations where it's kind of an immediate action, but we'll we'll send a unit just to protect a certain position of a fire, and we call that sheltering in place.

Okay, and so that's a um like a kind of an offensive tactic that we'll take early out on a fire and then uh or that we're an emergency situation, and it allows us to uh have time to kind of back that up and and come up with a better plan to either relocate or um re remove somebody from that kind of danger on an immediate front.

Great.

Well, thank you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

There's no other questions.

Uh thank you both for this uh awesome presentation.

We look forward to hearing more sometime in the spring.

And that brings us to our next item, uh, which is item number four, uh disability advisory commission presentation to the racial equity committee, and I will turn it over to our commission staff, uh Jesse Gotland.

Yeah, so thank you, Vice Chair Ellis, and uh really appreciate uh the commissioners who um came down uh during the day to the October 21st meeting of the Racial Equity Committee.

And so um as part of part of that um invitation to come and present, um, we do want to give the opportunity uh for commissioners to report out just on the experience of going and kind of what they heard and um what their thoughts were on it.

I'll just say that um I I thought it was um a really good presentation and thank you uh Commissioner Greenbaum for stepping in and um putting putting it together and a good collaboration too with the former uh commissioners um Brandy Toussaint Boyd um came down as well.

And um, so yeah, this is this is really your time to just kind of reflect on on that meeting, what you heard.

I think there uh was some a lot of good feedback from the DIS at that at that meeting.

So with that, uh maybe I can turn over to Commissioner Greenbaum.

Sounds good.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Sure.

Uh well, I thought I just as a overall, it was um it was nice to connect, you know, with with the committee, um, and be invited and to have that dialogue.

I hope you know, um hope we can continue it.

Um one thing that I love that Brandy was able to emphasize, but it did sound like, you know, of course, um, you know, with any city body, um one of the first um things, a responses is always, you know, money, funds, and um that seems to be probably an impediment in terms of an ADA court coordinator.

Um uh I believe uh one of the um um things that I had said or suggested was you know, in terms of uh specific, maybe not then you know, a full-time person, but at least to perhaps um focus on for example events in the community that we had that um we've talked about at length too.

Uh I um as I'm thinking as I am speaking, uh you know, um count um council member uh my vain was you know she was very um open and receptive and I really appreciated that and um even after the meeting she um repeated you know her um wanting to continue the uh the dialogue um um commissioner um styson you were you were you she was also there and I don't know maybe you have some more thoughts why I gather mine uh yes I I think um I'm um council member Maya Banks she just really was very open and very receptive and um she's looking for it to continue to go forward and um get some results out of it.

She didn't make it clear that when we talked about the ADA coordinator, I think the only the funds would just be the thing that would um get in the way, but it's not impossible.

Um I thought it was a great meeting and thank you to um you.

Oh thank you for your presentation.

Great job.

Um Jesse, did uh my short-term memory sometimes is bad because of my injury.

Um did you um I I made some notes, but I can look at my computer too.

I did you have anything specific either that you I will say this um one thing that came out of it is um Cal Yi Tao.

I got that wrong, but from the score initiative, uh, reached out to me in the Racial Equity Alliance and forwarded me some information.

Um and and they were at the meeting too, and they just wanted to make that connection.

So she passed along to me uh some information that I will forward out to the commission.

Yeah, I remember her.

Um that's great.

Yeah, I would love to see that.

Um and I think um, you know, a takeaway is probably incumbent on both us and the committee in terms of you know uh of continuing the dialogue.

Um and so perhaps um making sure, you know, on our for just on our discussion calendar, um I perhaps a reminder or um to you know, um, maybe perhaps um continuing to appear in front of them or um uh yeah, I think I think that it's um so they're not we we're not forgotten about, you know, and um because you know, yeah, I think too it was that uh this had been a request, you know, of the commission going back to 2022, 2023, and um, you know, uh they they wanted to give the commission that opportunity and and made time on the agenda um to do that.

And I really think the the message was really well received too.

I think they talked about the training materials that um they're putting out is going, you know, to include that um you know include the recommendations that were as part of the DAX annual report.

And so um that's that's pretty much what I heard.

Um and just I just thought of um one last one last thing.

Um one thing that I had, you know, um asked or or put forth was um in policy making, you know, perhaps um to well to keep us in mind um in terms of um our comments or feedback um and uh uh Brandy had given some good specific examples.

Um one was with regards to um uh I um uh may having um camping or encampments um on sidewalks and for example uh no one uh and her words no one had reached out in terms of or thought about or the issue did not come out about how that's particularly an impediment to um disabled members of the community um and on the other hand another specific example I think was with regard to the resting ordinance um and how that had a and a um an impact on disabled members uh as well so um I think they were also very receptive to that in terms of specific policy making.

Um so thank you to the staff for organizing because I I do think it was um successful and an important stuff in you know and having those communication with the city council in at least a committee that's you know welcoming it.

Yeah I would tend to agree I think if we can get before them either you know annually or 18 months or so I think you know these are ongoing conversations that are kind of iterative and build upon so I think just trying to make sure that we're included when they're talking about inclusion and accessibility so um and I appreciate everyone's efforts in this area including our former commissioners um hope maybe someday we'll be returned to the dais so um thank you to everyone and your efforts um any other comments on this item uh seeing none we'll move on to our sorry but we'll see public comment is there any public comment on this item there's no public comment on the thank you okay now we'll move on to our uh next item number five which is the city of Sacramento Disability Advisory Commission annual report and um work plan um turn this over to Jesse in a moment this is just kind of a precursor this is essentially how we plan out the agendas for the next year more or less these are the items and the different projects and initiatives and things that um the commission you know cares about we want to see going forward and so I think Jesse will kind of preview our previous plan from last year and kind of uh walk us through and kind of start with the the mission and purpose of the commission and going forward with that so um but so when we're trying to plan out our meetings this is kind of what the chair vice the chair and I and Jesse look to for guidance in that and we want to kind of keep in alignment with this this guiding document of ours.

So with that I will turn it over to Jesse.

That was a great introduction so um really appreciate that and I thought about um staying up there but I think it's better if I just come down to the podium and I did just I wanted to just walk through the effort um that we went through for the uh the um 2024 and the report and just kind of kick it off and you know we'll go through each of the the topics and um and kind of give ourselves I think a little bit of homework uh for uh what will be the December meeting and then and then set some set some goals for when we would like uh to have it approved.

So um I think I can just put this down here and we can follow along on camera, but essentially um you know like Vice Chair Ellis was saying, the annual report starts off with kind of the purpose and the mission of the commission, which uh you all should know is to um you know, advise the city on act on activities and um and then it'll it'll document who was on the commission in 2025, who the chair was.

And last year we did something kind of interesting.

We gave everybody had like their picture, right?

And a little bio.

And I think that played really well.

I remember when it was approved at the PPE.

Everyone, I think the council members said, Oh, this is this is the gold standard for commission reports.

So we had some kudos there.

Um I think we'll want to spend some time on the uh the message from the commission.

Yeah, so there it is.

So, you know, the chair kind of has that prerogative of crafting the message, but I think that'll be something we we talk about for sure in at the December meeting.

So we'll go over the message.

Um we'll have our if you want to uh include bios if you all want to do that again, and the new commissioners, you'll have to get me a picture.

So make sure you uh email me a picture we can put in the report, and then we'll get to the recommendations.

And so you'll see in the in the 2024 report, we had we had a list of of the recommendations.

So, you know, I think some of these can carry forward, some of these um, you know, we'll we'll we'll note kind of the progress on each one of them.

We can we can revisit them.

You can see, like we were just talking about the presentation to the rec.

Well, that was you know, that was on this, right?

So that's how council first came aware of it.

Uh we'll note some key accomplishments.

So um, you know, one of the one of the items past commission uh commissioners had worked on that the DAC worked on together was the um 88 drop-off zones around the Golden One Center.

And so, you know, included some pictures of that.

I will um I like to include pictures of some of our projects that have come before the commission and been commented on.

Um so I will have we just had our our Niños uh parkway open in South Natomas, had the ribbon cutting for that.

And so there's there's it's a great it's a great trail, um, has some has some really good accessibility features too.

So um I'll I'm gonna be sure to include some photos of that.

Um we uh this was a bridge that we did on Bell Avenue.

Um we were just we had received some really good feedback, the project manager from uh some of the residents, and uh so if I if I do happen to get good quotes like that, um I like to put them in there and acknowledge the staff that worked on the project.

So we opened up the Auburn Bridge um this year, uh, Boulevard Bridge Replacement Project.

So that was a key accomplishment.

So I'll probably include that.

Um we did uh quite a few Tim Haley Awards this year, so uh we'll we'll we'll have a section that you know kind of recognizes how many um you know awards or how many people were recognized by the commission there.

And then um, you know, commission resources we have a part on that, and then as uh Vice Chair Ellis was saying the work plan for the next year.

So some of these items we've gotten to, so we'll put updates on those.

Some of them are kind of um in process, and uh, you know, there might be maybe a couple we want to add.

I think one thing that I do want to be cognizant of is the number of meetings we have and the time limit, and maybe even have like a little projection of okay, how many items can we reasonably um kind of take on and which one of these um parts of the uh of the um work plan, you know, are we still working on that really haven't come before the commission yet?

So, you know, I think maybe some homework is to review review the past um annual report, um, kind of get familiar with it.

I think look at the look at what was on the work plan and um and uh you know, kind of bring your bring your thoughts back, and I think also too the the message from the commission, right is there certain things that you really want as a commission with a voice to um to give to the council so with that um that's my overview um I do want to talk about um kind of set some goals so we'll bring I think I'll bring like a rough draft to the December meeting and uh we can kind of go through and talk about talk about the existing work plan and the existing recommendations and see if there's any edits there.

I think maybe there's some homework for um Chair Kramer and uh Vice Chair Ellis on just crafting that message and if I have a draft maybe I can include include that text with it um at the December meeting.

Then I it'd be nice to bring back something for consideration of approval maybe in January.

It looks like we'll have a January uh second week of January meeting and if we need to um we can come back in February of course if there's still still edits to be made.

So that's my overview um if you have any um thoughts right now we can we can talk about it now um but with that I'll turn it back to you.

Yeah I would definitely um agree with you Jesse I think our I think our goal should be to get this done by January's meeting um and you know given the enormity of what's already on our work plan I mean I think you'll give us a good status update on where everything is is in December but I think coming in with the realistic of maybe we can add one or two items to the work plan as things roll off and are completed there I think there's possibly room for one to two additions but I think you're right just given you know anchoring what's realistic you know we have roughly 10 11 meetings a year um and we meet for two hours with the possibility of extending to three but you know being mindful of the two hours and what we can cover in a meeting I think that's realistic um and if it's alright with everyone I would like to say I like the BIOS I think we really that really resonated with the city council it gives us each kind of our voice in the report it's you know your the way I looked at it when I wrote mine it's kind of my why I'm here you know yeah I applied and kind of explained my votivations on the application but this was more of a uh free um space for me to express that in a way so I think if we can set a deadline of everyone getting your photo and your updated bio or your new bio to Jesse by the next meeting and then um I would say maybe so we have it to work on before December if say by the 15th of this month so about another 10 days-ish um if everyone can kind of give us if you have thoughts about the message from the commission that the chair writes if you have thoughts or things that you would like included in there get those to Jesse kind of making you our funnel so that way we're not um subverting the Brown Act I'm uh but those are kind of my initial thoughts is let's try to keep the work plan realistic and then I like kind of personalizing the report and giving each of us that little space to express who you are to the city council um but and with that, I believe it was Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes um is this a good time to make suggestions to place items in the hopper, if you will, to be considered for the 2026 work plan?

Would you like that's fine.

Yeah.

So this is the appropriate okay um so some some weeks ago, since the last meeting and before this meeting, um, I had a Facebook conversation with uh Capitol Public Radio reporter, formerly with KCRA Pamela Wu.

Um something was brought to my attention by another former reporter, Suzanne Fawn, um, who now with her husband Ryan Yamamoto work at stations in the Bay Area.

And Pamela wrote this.

Three years ago, my son Eric and our friend were hit by a car while crossing Riverside Boulevard in Sacramento.

Even though they were rightfully in the crosswalk, Eric was just 11 years old.

Their injuries were so severe, they both ended up in the intensive care unit.

Eric is now 14, fully recovered and ready to create change.

He's determined to make that crosswalk safer so no one else has to go through what he did.

If you live in Sacramento, and especially if you live in the pocket Green Haven neighborhood, please consider signing and sharing Eric's uh change.org petition to make Riverside Boulevard safer.

So they mentioned a rectangular, rapid flashing beacon in the um uh change.org flyer.

I made a comment to Miss Suzanne Fawn and received a response from Pamela Wu uh from my comment.

Pamela said, uh Mike Barnbaum, I'm Eric's mom.

This intersection absolutely could benefit from a quick build solution.

Eric and her his friend were seriously injured there.

Even if a flashing beacon doesn't get placed at that stop, the crosswalk is still especially improved with higher visibility paint or so-called shark teeth markings.

So um I basically mentioned to her about an intersection near West Campus High School that Dr.

Flo Cofer very much advocated for, and it came true, along with the Freeport Boulevard intersection.

We've heard from Principal Jessica Munday Martin and her school mentioned slowdown Sacramento and Isaac Gonzalez, and how the quick build all came to be thanks to a champion council member Katie Maple.

When I saw this, I thought, okay, you're bringing this agenda item now.

Yeah, uh, let me follow through with Pamela and Suzanne, two well-known journalists, and go to bat for them as a commissioner and see can we add a Riverside Boulevard um safety uh plan to the work plan, similar to how we did a Marysville Boulevard safety plan.

And my other suggestion is this that I've gotten from SACRT Go Paratransit Riders.

City Hall is 915 I Street.

However, the accessible entrance is really off of H Street.

Similar, 700H Street is the county administration center.

But if you know the ADA accessible ramp into that building is actually off of I Street between 8th and 7th.

So can we work closely with SACRT Go on landmarks where people need to go, as in these two buildings to start with, and make sure that everyone is on the same page.

So when somebody does make a reservation, let's say example here, 915 I Street is the real address, but please make sure that the driver actually goes to the H Street side, and at the county that they go to the I Street side due to where the accessible entrances are.

Thank you.

I don't know if anybody had ever thought of that.

Thank you.

Um Commissioner Greenbaum.

Oh, um, I'm sorry, I think I'm I'm gonna redraw that request right now.

Okay.

Anyone else have any other thoughts or comments?

I do remember now.

Yeah, and I think this is uh Oh.

Did you want to go?

Okay, go for it.

Uh in terms of a follow-up because in um question uh whether we can um put this on as a discussion item in you know next month or whatnot.

Um uh because I'd like to think about it a little bit more.

Is that kind of the plan here?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, great.

We don't have to like this is just the introduction to it.

But if people have things they want to throw out there, yeah.

I like to write my calendar, so because of the Stephanie Saws who helps me with the commission, she has taken notes on us, so um, like we got and we're recorded too, so um, but you're these these are types of ideas we can consider for the work plan, you know.

I almost forgot as I know.

Go ahead, Commissioner uh Barman.

Sorry.

I I almost forgot, but I know we kind of briefly discussed it a couple months ago.

Would Greg Taylor be available next year to present Sacramento Valley station and any accessible things to focus for this commission?

Yeah, that's a good example, yeah.

So he I have reached out and invited him to the commission, but yeah, he's on the follow-up log as a potential presentation in 26 or yeah.

Uh Commissioner Carr.

Yeah, uh I was just wondering if you can resend this uh little book just as in um as a you know example so we can.

Yeah, so it is available, it is available online.

Um, and because it would it's you know it's been agenda, it's been approved.

But I do want to get get a draft version of the report out and that will be part of the the process here is um kind of requesting anyone's edits and that sort of thing.

So yeah, we'll be sending out but I'll yeah, I'll send out a broadcast email to the commission with some of the information we talked about earlier, but also with this report, just so you can have it, yeah.

Thank you.

Any other comments, questions, or thoughts.

Okay, seeing none, I'll just kind of recap and say, you know, if you have get your get your bio picture to Jesse by next meeting.

You can get it to me actually, yeah, by next Friday.

Next Friday, there we go.

Awesome.

But yeah, next Friday for that, and then if you have any thoughts or topic, it can be bullets, it can be just you know, doesn't have to be the actual message, but if you have any thoughts or anything that you would like to go into that message that um Chair Kramer would write.

Well, we kind of the previous chair, it was more of a collective message from us all.

But um, if you have any thoughts or topics you want expressed in that, get those to Jesse by next Friday.

Um so those are kind of our deadlines, and then for the December meeting, kind of go through this um the current uh report and have thoughts and things to include as we walk through it and get some where the status is on some of the work plan.

But like I said, I think being realistic, the work plan is pretty, I would say aggressive and ambitious as is, and so I want to kind of set us up for success for the next year and whoever is chair and vice chair that they have a realistic roadmap ahead of them.

Um so keeping that in mind, you know, maybe we can add one or two things to what's there given that some of these projects have been completed, but I would kind of narrow our focus on what uh our bandwidth is.

And with that, uh do we have any um public comment on this item?

I do not have any speaker slips for this item.

Thank you.

And with that, I will go into our next item, which is um the commission staff report.

So back to Jesse if you have anything else to add for us.

Um nothing I'll pass on my old report.

You're all for it today.

Um and our I'll move right in.

I assume there's no public comment for Jesse's report.

Okay, we don't.

Okay.

And then the next item is uh commissioner uh comments, uh ideas, and uh questions and suggestions.

Um turn it over to you all.

Uh Commissioner Carr.

Oh, thank you so much, Mr.

Um, I just wanted to wish that people broke in the SIC community and anyone who's have addresses.

November 2025 is awareness, sick awareness month for uh it's awareness month for many many issues, including um sick awareness and appreciation.

About two-thirds of the kids who are bullied in schools um are um belong to the sick community and they are bullied because of their appearance and their um you know the clothes like the turban and the clothes and um for misidentification.

So I want to make sure that we um we do um spread awareness about that.

In addition to that, um I want to uh also say that you know uh November is also homeless youth awareness month and cybersecurity awareness month.

So let's all be safe and take care of each other.

Thank you.

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes, I like to wish everybody a very happy Thanksgiving.

Um we don't meet again until after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Um and just to clarify for staff, so there is a December 3rd meeting.

Okay, and then will the commissioners uh that are available at that meeting be able to get a handout of the calendar for 2026 in the meeting schedule so we know what our expectations are for next year.

Yeah, I believe that is usually on the December agenda, it's the calendar for the next for the year.

I don't necessarily want to go by a draft that the city council was considering.

I'd like to look at final um documents.

Yeah, thank you.

Uh Commissioner Patel.

I was uh thinking of what was special going on this month as well.

Um this week is national uh school psychologist week.

Um, and it was nice to see the California Department of Education put out a little thank you.

Um school psychologists help every single one of our students who uh we represent when they become uh that are part of our the community that we are seeking to support and I can say that the ones that I work with um work their job times tense.

So if you know uh a school psychologist, send them a nice message and make sure they know how much they are appreciated.

Um it's a big deal.

Thank you.

Um any other comments or ideas or questions from the commissioners.

Um, move to adjourn.

Oh, we have public comment.

Final public comment of the evening for items not on the agenda.

I do not have any speaker slips on this uh public comments matters not on the agenda.

Great.

Uh and with that, I will adjourn the meeting of the disabilities advisory commission for today.

We're done early.